This story beforehand aired on June 9, 2015. It was up to date on Aug. 30, 2025.
This week’s “48 Hours,” appropriately set in Los Angeles, is a twisted story of greed and homicide that, at occasions, could seem to be a Hollywood blockbuster. Like every good thriller, it’s one half romance, two elements Hitchcock. However in the long run, it’s all true.
“It wasn’t a joke to him. It was very serious. Get it over with. Be bloody, be bad about it, and end it,” Rick Fuhrmann instructed “48 Hours correspondent Troy Roberts. “He wanted her dead and he didn’t care how it was done — beat her up, cut her head off put her in ditch.”
In 2012, millionaire Dino Guglielmelli requested Fuhrmann to kill the mom of his kids.
“Did you ever say … ‘how would the children feel if they lost their mother?” Roberts requested.
“More than once,” Fuhrmann replied.
And what did he say?”
“He would say, ‘They’ll be much better off without her. … I will find them a good mother. I’ll even have you check her out first to make sure she’s great and make — get your approval,’” stated Fuhrmann.
Simply 9 years earlier, this horror story was a love story. Monica Olsen, a small city lady from Canada, made it massive as a New York trend mannequin after which moved to Los Angeles to attempt her hand at appearing.
“Monica was working very hard towards … being successful in modeling and acting,” shut pal Olya Banar stated. “She was beautiful. … She is very photogenic. … if this whole thing wouldn’t happened we would see her on the big screens right now, definitely.”
Monica Olsen and Dino Guglielmelli
Monica Olsen
Banar says Monica wasn’t in Los Angeles for very lengthy earlier than she was swept off her ft by Dino, an enthralling “farm boy” from an enormous household in Walla Walla, Washington.
“We all grew up in the same house where my parents live currently,” stated Emilio Guglielmelli, Dino’s brother.
Emilio Guglielmelli says Dino’s past love was music.
“He’s always been a musician, very, very interested in music,” he stated.
Dino dropped out of school and moved to Los Angeles to be a rock star, however that’s not how he would make his fortune.
Residing within the land of well being and health, Dino noticed a necessity and capitalized on it. He began making and distributing nutritional vitamins and different dietary dietary supplements.
“There’s nobody in the world doesn’t want to live longer. And so, he parlayed that into a great business,” Emilio Guglielmelli defined.
Dino would ultimately construct the massively profitable multilevel complement and skincare firm, Creations Backyard.
“Dino was a young, successful man with a lot of money and lot of power, and when he met Monica … he wanted her and he knew how to get her,” stated Banar.
Six months after they met, Dino flew Monica to Italy and proposed.
“It sounds like a fairytale in the beginning, because he proposed to her in Venice,” Banar continued. “I mean it was love at first sight. You don’t hear those stories happened.”
The couple was married simply three months later and Dino’s brother, Gino Guglielmelli, attended the lavish marriage ceremony.
“It was pretty fancy for me, the whole thing,” he stated.
Gino Guglielmelli says Dino’s mannequin spouse appeared to finish his child brother’s transformation from farm boy to mogul.
“He had a successful business. He had nice cars. I think that just added to the image,” he defined.
Requested what his first impressions of Monica have been, Emilio Guglielmelli instructed Roberts, “I didn’t care for her. … I thought she was a gold digger, and … had other motives. I don’t know what it was, something about her I didn’t really care for.”
“She wanted her lifestyle that wasn’t sittin’ at home. You know, her lifestyle was to go to Hollywood, and whatever they do in Hollywood,” Gino Guglielmelli stated. “They had nannies … people with the girls, you know, all day long. … So he’s probably spent more time with ’em. Because when he’d come home from work, sometimes she wouldn’t come back … until later in the evening.”
“I think she was a great wife and from what I saw of their life, I mean, they were perfect … together,” stated Banar.
However Gino lived along with his brother and Monica for six months early on of their marriage and says he noticed hassle from the beginning.
“… just two people with the same kind of egos and … I think she really wanted to have a career. And I think he wanted her to be a mom,” he stated.
Banar says Monica was an amazing spouse and mom, however when she needed extra, their relationship modified — and so did Dino.
“Monica was at home taking care of kids for a couple of years and it was time for her to … be more independent,” she defined. “I think Dino was scared of losing control over Monica … Started being more aggressive, more controlling towards her.”
By the point Rick Fuhrmann got here into the image, their marriage was in its ultimate act.
“I knew that he was dating all sorts of girls… because he liked to brag about it,” he stated.
Fuhrmann and Dino have been in enterprise collectively, supplying nutritional vitamins and dietary supplements to the navy. Fuhrmann had served as an enlisted man years earlier and had contacts. He says that impressed Dino.
“You two became friends,” Roberts famous.
“Close,” stated Fuhrmann.
And the nearer they acquired, the extra Dino confided in Fuhrmann.
“Dino told me that Monica was a very bad mother … always gone all the time. And — slept around with men, women — drank too much, did drugs,” stated Fuhrmann.
After about seven years of marriage, Dino filed for divorce. Fuhrmann says he turned consumed with the considered shedding half his property and custody of his kids.
“Dino is, for lack of a better word, a complete control freak and a game player,” Fuhrmann instructed Roberts. “… he had to be one step ahead of everybody. … he had to win at the end of the day.”
Fuhrmann says when Dino was ordered to pay a whopping $55,000 a month in alimony, he hatched a plan to have his Canadian-born spouse arrested and deported and turned to Fuhrmann for assist.
“With my military background, Dino thought I was perfect,” he defined. “He would like me to plant drugs in her car … follow her around and … call the police when she’s drivin’ erratically to see if she can get pulled over. … I had Monica’s house keys — Monica’s car keys — Monica’s credit card statements showing me everything that she’s done, every place that she’s been.”
Dino filed papers exhibiting his firm was in hassle and alimony was lowered to $25,000. However Fuhrmann says it was nonetheless an excessive amount of, too late.
“What was the final straw for him?” Roberts requested Fuhrmann.
“So what were his instructions to you?” Roberts requested.
“This has gotta end. She’s gotta go. Get it — get it done,” Fuhrmann replied. “If I wasn’t gonna do it, he was gonna find somebody to do it.”
Fuhrmann instructed Dino he would “take care” of Monica and he did — simply not the way in which Dino needed.
“Why are you still alive?” Roberts requested Monica Olsen.
“You know, I [laughs] I think Rick had — did the noble thing,” she replied.
“Monica is really lucky that Mr. Guglielmelli picked the wrong guy. Otherwise she’d be dead,” stated Deputy District Lawyer Emily Cole.
A DARK TURN
“I remember the first time I saw him, he was smiling at me,” Monica Olsen stated of assembly Dino Guglielmelli.
Monica Olsen and Dino Guglielmelli on their marriage ceremony day.
Monica Olsen
When Monica married Dino, she was certain he was her fortunately ever after.
“He was persistent. He was charming,” she stated.
She by no means dreamed their story would finish so tragically.
“You don’t think that the person that you’ve created a life with … can want to harm you and make you suffer,” she instructed Roberts.
Monica could be very clever and has a Grasp’s diploma in worldwide finance. However, she says that like lots of ladies, she was blinded by Dino’s attraction and the spoils of his riches.
“We went out on a date … and he said, ‘You know, I have two plane tickets, and I wanna take you to Paris,’” Monica recalled. “…throughout our marriage, he spoiled me.”
However Monica says issues started to alter in 2008, when she determined she needed to return to work, and requested Dino to assist her create a skincare line known as “Skin by Monica.”
“That was kinda my baby,” she instructed Roberts.
However Dino took cost.
“Everything was kind of under his control,” she defined. “And I was kept out of the loop. ‘Don’t ask too many questions.’”
Monica says the extra questions she requested, the angrier Dino turned. So she labored on reigniting her modeling profession, however that simply made Dino livid.
“There was a change in his personality,” Roberts famous to Monica.
“Huge. He went dark. I mean, it was — it was as if he was possessed,” she stated.
Monica says she was by no means the one sleeping round and doing medicine — Dino was.
And on the peak of that insanity, he “created” his heavy metallic rock band.
Dino Guglielmelli performing along with his band.
Dino Guglielmelli
Dino dyed his hair and polished his nails black, and instructed Monica it was all for present. However she says she turned frightened of him and began documenting his habits.
“When Dino started behaving really badly — Monica would record him on her cell phone,” Olya Banar stated. “… and showing these videos to everyone saying, ‘Look, I don’t know what happened to him. This is really crazy. He’s behaving like a lunatic.’”
In a single incident that was recorded, Dino fired a nanny who his kids beloved as a result of she was too loyal to Monica.
After Dino filed for divorce, he had refused to maneuver out. What Monica didn’t know is that whereas Dino was residing within the visitor home, he was already planning to eliminate her, by paying his pal Rick Fuhrmann to do it.
“How did he want Monica killed?” Roberts requested Fuhrmann.
“That would — depended on the day,” he replied.
Fuhrmann says he tried to maintain Dino joyful and stall him by means of the divorce, hoping it will all finish when there was an settlement. However issues simply stored escalating.
“She was definitely putting him through the wringer. And he wanted her to suffer,” Fuhrmann defined. “So I came up with this idea of letting him know that she was infected with AIDS, ‘and then in just a matter of time, Dino, it’ll all be over. Don’t worry about it.’ And that worked for months.”
“How did he react when you told him that you infected Monica with HIV virus?” Roberts requested.
“How big can you smile? It’s not a joke. I mean, literally, how big can you smile, ’cause his was pretty big,” stated Fuhrmann.
Rick Fuhrmann
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Fuhrmann made it clear he by no means really contaminated Monica with the virus. It was only a deceive stall Dino. However in the meantime, issues on the Guglielmelli house have been about to spiral uncontrolled. It was the evening of Jan. 16, 2012.
“He was getting in my face, right then and there in front of the kids,” Monica instructed Roberts. “…my first thing was to get the kids removed.”
Monica says she rushed the youngsters into her room and locked the door, however earlier than she may dial 911, Dino as soon as once more beat her to it, and accused her of assaulting him.
“He said that she wrapped her hands around his neck and it caused scratches. And that she hit him,” stated Deputy District Lawyer Emily Cole.
Monica Olsen was arrested and Emily Cole was assigned to the case.
“The story was corroborated somewhat by their daughters. So the case was filed as a misdemeanor domestic violence case,” Cole continued.
“So there was evidence that she had struck him?” Roberts requested.
“There were pictures,” stated Cole.
“He showed me a picture that his daughter or one of his friends took or something of this itty-bitty little cut. And I basically said, ‘Man up,’” Fuhrmann stated. “‘I’ve cut myself worse shaving.”
Nonetheless, Dino was in a position to get a restraining order towards Monica, and was granted full custody of their daughters.
“I’m being given a restraining order to stay away from my kids, to stay away from the house, to stay away from my business,” Monica instructed Roberts.
All of it sounds too acquainted to Leitia Devine – Dino Guglielmelli’s ex-wife.
“Do you see parallels between your story and Monica’s?” Roberts requested Devine.
“This is the same story almost,” she replied. “At any given moment, he would do anything to make me lose my kids. That was his goal.”
Devine says that in their divorce, Dino accused her of doing medicine and being abusive, after which took every part: their daughter, their house, and the enterprise they began collectively, Creations Backyard.
“The Dino I married was a caring and compassionate guy. The guy I divorced was callous, mean, calculating,” Devine stated. “The best way to describe it is Jekyll and Hyde.”
“Looking back in hindsight,” stated Cole, “this is exactly what he did to his second wife. He brought up domestic violence charges. And he was able to get custody of their child then and that’s exactly what it looks like he was doing with Monica.”
Monica misplaced custody of her women for 13 months, after which expenses have been lastly dropped for lack of proof. However that’s when Dino pushed Rick Fuhrmann to execute the plan.
“The pressure was on to kill her. Three, five, seven, 10 times a week, phone calls at 4:00 a.m. in the morning, ‘When’s this gonna end? Are you sure you can get it done?’” stated Fuhrmann.
“There’s always problems, even in normal divorces with couples that fight over certain things. But you somehow make it work for the benefit of your children. There is no such a concept in his mind. It’s all or nothing. It’s ‘The Hunger Games.’ It’s kill or be killed,” stated Monica.
Monica was about to learn the way proper she was. Rick Fuhrmann couldn’t stall Dino any longer and says he’s no killer, so he determined to go to Monica’s divorce legal professional and spill the beans.
“We had quite a detailed discussion,” Fuhrmann stated. “I told him everything.”
“You told him everything. That Dino wanted Monica dead,” stated Roberts.
“Absolutely,” stated Fuhrmann.
“How did your husband want you killed?” Roberts requested Monica.
“I mean, in a horrific way,” she defined. “He needed to make it seem like a drug killing. …like I had been kidnapped in Mexico. …And he needed me raped, and he needed my head minimize off.
“It’s pretty horrific,” stated Roberts.
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Monica’s lawyer took Rick Fuhrmann’s info to the district legal professional’s workplace and the case of tried homicide was assigned to none aside from Emily Cole.
“I didn’t automatically recognize the Guglielmelli name. It was his daughters names that I recognized from the domestic violence case,” Cole stated. “That’s what clicked in my head, that I had met this guy before.”
However earlier than Cole may make an arrest, her investigators wanted stable proof.
“The detective said … ‘Would you be willing to wear a wire?’ And I said, ‘Sure,’” Fuhrmann instructed Roberts.
On Oct. 1, 2013, he did simply that:
UNDERCOVER AUDIO RECORDING
Rick Fuhrmann: You’re optimistic?
Dino Guglielmelli: That what?
Rick Fuhrmann: You need her useless?
Dino Guglielmelli: Oh, I’m…
Rick Fuhrmann: 100%?
Dino Guglielmelli: Why wouldn’t I?
Rick Fuhrmann: Why wouldn’t you? Good query.
THE STING
On the afternoon of Oct. 1, 2013, Rick Fuhrmann and Dino Guglielmelli did one thing they’d accomplished many occasions.
“They were just gonna have lunch and this is where they usually went,” Emily Cole stated of the Thai restaurant.
However the prosecutor made certain that this time the tables have been turned.
“The detectives in this case … from the sheriff’s department major crimes, they were sitting here, watching Dino and Fuhrmann have their lunch,” stated Cole.
“Was it nerve-wracking having that lunch?” Roberts requested Fuhrmann.
“Yeah. I was pissed. …I was very angry,” he replied. “I literally just wanted just — grab and run off the other side of the table and just wrack his brain a little bit and go, ‘Do you understand that you’ve got everything. You’ve got the friggin’ American dream and you’re just an idiot?’”
As a substitute, Fuhrmann set about catching a killer on tape:
Rick Fuhrmann: There’s no going again after we stand up out of this seat.
Dino Guglielmelli: I’ll by no means return.
“So what did Furman have to get out of Dino?” Roberts requested Cole.
“Well, first of all, he needed to give him an opportunity to say no … to back out at all times. But he needed for Dino to understand that, at the end of this conversation, by the time they walked out that door, that there was no way that Dino was gonna be able to stop what he had put in motion,” she replied.
Dino Guglielmelli: I’ll be joyful when it’s throughout … that’s after I’ll actually be joyful.
“We did exactly the same routine as we’ve done for a year,” Fuhrmann instructed Roberts. “It was the same conversation … Nothing was changed. Nothing was embellished. Nothing was made up.”
In a second Fuhrmann calls typical, Dino is heard justifying his need to have Monica killed, as a result of she lied throughout a deposition within the home violence case towards her:
Dino Guglielmelli: When she went into her deposition and lied and stated that I scratched myself and set her up and that she by no means touched me and that every one these scratches got here from me going to the lavatory and scratching myself. She appeared me straight within the eyes and stated it. And that’s after I knew that I needed her to be gone. That I may by no means ever belief her or something — something that got here out of her mouth. I knew then that she would do something to harm me.
“This is a clip from the recording that was made that day at this restaurant between Dino and Fuhrmann,” Roberts instructed Cole as they listened to the tape in the identical restaurant the place the recording was made:
Rick Fuhrmann: I — I’ll ask you a easy query. You’re optimistic?
Dino Guglielmelli: That what?
Rick Fuhrmann: You need her useless?
Dino Guglielmelli: Uh-huh.
Rick Fuhrmann: 100%? And also you’re certain the ladies are g — they’re effective?
Dino Guglielmelli: They’re completely effective. All they want is their dad.
Rick Fuhrmann: All they — all they want is their dad.
“So this is significant because … this was a clear declaration that he wanted his wife dead?” Roberts requested.
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“No matter the consequences,” Cole affirmed. “…he wants her dead regardless of who it’s gonna hurt.”
Dino Guglielmelli: It’s like a dream come true. Severely. I imply, you recognize, she’s accomplished so — she’s tried so laborious to harm me for therefore lengthy and accomplished a lot, you recognize, evil issues.
“Three or four times I gave him the way out. …’Are you sure you want her dead? When I get up out of this seat, it’s done, it’s over,’” Fuhrmann stated. “I think his words were, ‘It’s been a long time, but why wouldn’t I’”
Dino Guglielmelli: Why wouldn’t I?
Rick Fuhrmann: Why wouldn’t you? Good query?
“‘But what are the kids gonna do for a mother?’ ‘Don’t worry about it. I’ll find a good one,’” Fuhrmann instructed Roberts.
Rick Fuhrmann: By the point we’re out of lunch, it’s already accomplished. You simply want to determine how one can pay me.
Dino Guglielmelli: Oh, I’ll pay you. I —
Rick Fuhrmann: How a lot?
Dino Guglielmelli: You already instructed me how a lot.
Rick Fuhrmann: $80,000?
Dino Guglielmelli: That’s what you instructed me.
Rick Fuhrmann says that in earlier conversations about killing Monica, Dino had made it clear he needed it accomplished whereas she was touring overseas. So Fuhrmann instructed Dino that whereas they have been at lunch, Monica was on trip in Mexico, the place she would die that day.
Dino Guglielmelli: Are you tellin’ me it’s gonna be accomplished right this moment? Are you severe?
Rick Fuhrmann: Sure, after I go away this room.
Fuhrmann satisfied Dino {that a} employed murderer in Mexico would kill Monica earlier than that they had time to digest their lunch:
Dino Guglielmelli: I don’t wish to — I don’t wish to know something.
Rick Fuhrmann: Nicely, there you go. I’m not gonna let you know then.
Dino Guglielmelli: I’ll examine it within the paper.
Rick Fuhrmann: Sure, you’ll. Mexican paper, possibly.
Painfully conscious of the sting operation, Monica was hiding out in a lodge room in Beverly Hills. That evening, Dino went house to his daughters, presumably pondering their mom was useless.
“The following day, the recording was brought to me. We listened to it and then I filed the case,” Cole instructed Roberts.
Dino Guglielmelli was arrested at his house in Valencia, California, in entrance of his daughters, and was charged with tried homicide.
“They saw him being arrested,” stated Monica.
The women have been taken into protecting custody and Monica needed to decide them up on the jail.
“What I don’t understand is why the hate?” Roberts requested Monica. “The deep-seated anger and hatred towards you?”
“You know — that’s a question for him,” she replied.
It’s a query Troy Roberts would ultimately get to ask Dino over the cellphone.
THE WHY BEHIND THE HOW
The one method “48 Hours” correspondent Troy Roberts may ask Dino Guglielmelli why he needed his spouse, Monica, killed was by way of phone. Dino is being held in a facility in Corcoran, California, which doesn’t permit cameras.
“My first question to you is … what mistakes did you make? What are you guilty of?” Roberts requested Dino.
“Well, I would say I’m probably —I could say that … I’m guilty of allowing myself to — to be betrayed and manipulated. I’m guilty of working too hard. I’m guilty of trusting too much,” he replied.
Dino says he’s the sufferer right here. He calls Rick Fuhrmann a grasp conman who Dino says satisfied him they may make hundreds of thousands promoting nutritional vitamins and dietary supplements to the navy. When that con began to unravel, Dino says Fuhrmann set him up for tried homicide.
“So you’re not taking any responsibility for this?” Roberts requested.
“No. I’m — I’m — no. Ask Fuhrmann,” Dino stated, “Why did he do it? After two years in a manipulation on a military contract, and — and all this stuff, why did he do that? He didn’t have to. I wasn’t going out trying to find somebody to knock off my wife.”
Prosecutor Emily Cole confirms that Rick Fuhrmann did certainly con Dino into pondering there was an enormous contract coming his method.
“Rick forged Department of Defense documents to lead Mr. Guglielmelli to believe that there was some big business deal. And Mr. Fuhrmann explains that he did that in order to keep Mr. Guglielmelli happy. Because a happy Dino doesn’t wanna kill his wife,” Cole defined.
“Is there a military contract?” Fuhrmann requested. “There’s military contracts given every day. I particularly am seeking one for supplements. And I’m still working on it today, and that’s really all I’ll say with that.”
“Our investigation brought forward the information that Mr. Fuhrmann … only spent a year in the military … he had a very basic military background … he was honorably discharged on injury,” Cole defined. “Rick Fuhrmann is a chameleon because he’ll be whatever you want him to be.”
And identical to Emily Cole, “48 Hours” discovered Richard Fuhrmann laborious to pin down.
“Are you a hit man?” Roberts requested Fuhrmann.
“No,” he replied.
“Have you ever killed somebody?”
“Not on U.S. soil. That’s it. Move on,” stated Fuhrmann.
“However you’ve got killed somebody, Roberts pressed.
“Move on,” stated Fuhrmann.
“He’ll say and do … what he thinks you want him to do,” Cole stated. “I think Dino and Mr. Fuhrmann were very similar in that respect. And I think that’s why they got along so well.”
However whereas it was apparent that Rick Fuhrmann was a phony, the conspiracy to kill Monica was very actual:
Rick Fuhrmann: By the point we’re out of lunch, it’s already accomplished. You simply want to determine how one can pay me.
Dino Guglielmelli: Oh, I’ll pay you. I —
Rick Fuhrmann: How a lot?
Dino Guglielmelli: You already instructed me how a lot.
Rick Fuhrmann: $80,000?
Dino Guglielmelli: That’s what you instructed me.
“I’ve listened to the tape … and it’s very clear … on the tape … you wanted your wife killed and you were willing to pay $80,000 to make it happen,” Roberts commented to Dino.
“Well … the whole money aspect had come up numerous times about him wanting money and needing money, and I’d been paying him money for a long time. I dunno how much money I paid him. I think I — in total, I — I paid him probably $50,000 to secure the military contract. And it was always, ‘Well, how are you gonna get me the money and where is the money gonna come from?’ That was a question all the time,” he replied. “…by the time an hour-and-a-half lunch was up and he asked me those questions — I was — you know, was it about killing somebody? I really didn’t think anybody was going to be dead, I mean, I’m just answering the question … I know what the tape appears to be like, but I didn’t take any of it seriously, I really didn’t.”
Dino claims it was Rick Fuhrmann who needed to eliminate Monica, as a result of she was attempting to sabotage his navy contract.
“He convinces me that Monica is calling them and trying to kill the contract. So he’s like, ‘You know, I wanna get her out of the country, I want anything I can do … to get rid of her.’ I’m like, ‘Richard, don’t talk like that, just — we’ll just pay her when the contract happens.’ ‘No, no, no, we’re not gonna get the contract, do you understand what she’s doing? She’s sending letters to them,’” stated Dino.
“Are you saying to me, Dino, that Rick Fuhrmann was the one that proposed killing Monica?” Roberts requested.
“All the time, yeah. I never -” Dino replied.
“And you nev — and you never said that?”
“No,” stated Dino.
“You never said that?”
“No.”
The extra Roberts pressed Dino about what he stated on the tape, the extra he blamed Rick Fuhrmann and the much less his story made sense.
“Well, on the tape, it’s very clear that you understood that once the lunch with Rick was over, there was no turning back, that he was going to kill Monica,” stated Roberts.
“He said that to me many times. ‘There’s no turning back once this happens.’ He — he would say, ‘There’s no turning back, we don’t pay the people in the military contract, they’re gonna kill both of us.’ I mean, these were things that he used to say all the time. I didn’t take any of it seriously. I mean, it’s — it was normal protocol for him to keep — talk like that,” stated Dino.
However “48 Hours” listened to the entire tape and there’s no mistaking what Dino and Fuhrmann have been discussing. Even Dino’s brother agrees.
“Did you hear the recordings between your brother and Rick Fuhrmann?” Roberts requested Emilio Guglielmelli.
“Yes,” he replied.
“What did you make of it?”
The recordings type of converse for themselves,” Emilio Guglielmelli stated. “… they had a conversation about killing Monica.”
“Dino made it clear more than once that he wanted her dead,” Roberts famous. “And he was willing to pay $80,000 to have it done.”
“Yes, yeah,” Emilio stated. “Yes. Yes, he did.”
“Does that surprise you?”
“Yes, it does surprise me. And … I truly believe, though, the whole situation snowballed out of control,” Emilio instructed Roberts. “I believe, in my heart, there may be — you know how guys talk, everybody gets mad, you say things and whatever. …he could say, ‘I wish she was gone.’ Somebody’d say, ‘Oh, I can get rid of her for you if you want.’ … the guy — was a real blowhard, and — and I could see the situation where he’d say, ‘Oh, I can take care of that. No problem — I can do that do that for you. Sure, go ahead.’”
“Richard told me the whole time, ‘I don’t know Monica, but I hate her guts.’ ‘What she’s done to you and those children, she should be deported, she should be this, she should be that,’” Dino instructed Roberts over the cellphone. “I mean, to the depth of the deception here. …I’m not lying. I’m telling you the truth. Yeah, I fell into a military contract where I was blinded by that … I just kind of ignored it, because that was my focus. And that was wrong. …it does show a weakness in me being greedy. I should have recognized what was going on, and I’ll never forgive myself for that…”
However to Emily Cole this wasn’t a few phony navy contract or Rick Fuhrmann. This was a clear-cut case of homicide for rent by Dino Guglielmelli:
Rick Fuhrmann: And also you’re certain the ladies are g — they’re effective?
Dino Guglielmelli: They’re completely effective. All they want is their dad.
Rick Fuhrmann: All they n — all they want is their dad?
There was only one downside: Cole’s star witness was an alleged conman.
“Were you concerned about putting Rick Fuhrmann on the stand?” Roberts requested Cole.
“To an extent,” she replied. “He had his own credibility issues. And that was brought forward in the preliminary hearing. There were a lotta things that the defense attorney brought up that didn’t make him look great.”
The protection portrayed Fuhrmann as a fraud who manipulated Dino with a fictional multimillion-dollar navy contract for dietary supplements. Cole knew that will occur once more if Fuhrmann was known as as a witness in entrance of a jury.
“But the case wasn’t Mr. Fuhrmann. It was the tape,” she stated.
However would the tape be sufficient to persuade a jury?
A PROSECUTOR’S DILEMMA
9 months after Dino Guglielmelli was caught on tape and charged with tried homicide for attempting to have his spouse killed, prosecutor Emily Cole was getting ready for trial. The proof from the tape had the potential to ship Dino Gugilemelli away for all times.
“When Mr. Fuhrmann tells him that when he leaves this room, he can’t change the fact that Monica’s gonna be killed and Mr. Guglielmelli agrees to that, that is Mr. Guglielmelli pointing the proverbial gun at Monica,” stated Cole.
Dino Guglielmelli: And there’s no method for them to, like, come monitor it again to me, proper?
Rick Fuhrmann: No, that’s why I requested you in regards to the cash.
Cole had stable proof on that tape, however she additionally had an issue: Rick Fuhrmann himself. Simply earlier than trial, she determined she wasn’t going to take any possibilities, and made a shocking determination. She supplied Dino a deal: plead responsible to tried homicide within the second-degree and serve solely 9 years in jail.
“He had never spent a day in jail previous to this incident. He didn’t have a record. …Mr. Guglielmelli didn’t commit violence on anyone either,” Cole defined. “And I think this was a fair sentence.”
“I think my life is worth more than that,” Monica instructed Roberts. “To me … the intent shows the criminal mind. … The intention. So if I try to kill you and the bullet misses you by half an inch, am I less of a criminal because I don’t have a good aim? Is he less of a criminal because Richard came forward?”
Requested if she needed the case to go to trial, Monica instructed Roberts, “Sure. Completely.
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“I was shocked. I remember calling asking them, ‘Why are you offering him a plea?’” Fuhrmann stated. “What I got back was, ‘Don’t worry about it. He’ll never take it. … Don’t worry about it. He’s going away for life.’”
“I went all the way to the last second before I took the deal. But my mom — my whole family pleaded with me to take the deal … I wasn’t going to.” Dino instructed Roberts by cellphone. “I thought a 1/5 chance was really worth taking the risk, and I told ’em all that. I didn’t think a jury was going to find me guilty. But after my mom said, ‘Please, just take the deal,’ I took the deal.”
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Dino is serving his time at a state jail in Corcoran, California. He will likely be eligible for parole in 2021.
“He will get out angry. He will get out vengeful. And he will get out thinking that the game still needs to be won,” stated Rick Fuhrmann.
Regardless of suspicions that Fuhrmann is a conman, he has not been charged with any crime. His greatest worry is when Dino is launched.
“That’s what’s scary for me,” he stated. “There’s isn’t any doubt in my mind that … my life would be in danger.”
And Monica fears for her security as effectively.
“I know that my husband’s very resourceful. He may have asked Rick, but he could have asked many other people too,” Monica stated. “He had a lot more than $80,000 at his disposal to have me killed.”
“So do you believe … money will be waiting for him when he’s released?” Roberts requested.
“If he has control over it from prison then absolutely, he will have access to — several millions,” Monica replied.
Dino’s brother, Gino, insists there isn’t any cash left.
“She claims that there’s four-and-a half million dollars overseas. OK. Go find it. His second wife, ‘Oh, there’s $20 million overseas.’ Go find it. How come nobody’s finding it? Seriously … Where is it?” Gino Guglielmelli stated with amusing. “Honestly, the guy’s in prison. Can’t somebody go get it?”
“Do you have any sympathy for Monica?” Roberts requested Emilio Guglielmelli.
“No. I think she — I think she pretty much brings on all of her misfortune herself. But — I didn’t like her before, so I’m certainly not gonna like her now,” he replied.
“What if your brother was actually associating with a real hit man? Monica could be dead today,” Roberts famous.
“I guess, by the tape, it’s probably true. But, I believe that my brother, in his business world, probably knew more capable people, if he wanted something like that done, than Richard Fuhrmann. That’s why I think it was just a — something said between two guys that spiraled out of control,” stated Emilio Guglielmelli.
“Does Monica have any reason to fear for her safety after you are released from prison?” Roberts requested Dino.
“Of course not. I just want … to take care of my kids. I want to pay child support. I want to be a good, providing citizen and a good, providing father,” he replied.
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However Dino might need a tough time with that. Monica is now again is continuing with the divorce — preventing for the home and no matter cash is left. She has full custody of their daughters.
“How do you make them adjust to a new life, knowing that their father’s alive, knowing that their father, you know, is in prison?” stated Monica.
“Do they know why he’s in prison?” Roberts requested.
“Yes. They saw him being arrested. So, they were — they were very present that morning,” Monica replied. “Vendela, my youngest, she said, ‘You know, Mommy, God gave Daddy a timeout.’”
However Dino nonetheless claims he’s the sufferer.
“I’ve been criminalized, Troy,,” he stated. “It’s just — destroyed my life. And — I don’t get it, I don’t understand why everyone wants to attack me, and this guy set me up.”
“Monica is lucky because, in the end, Rick Fuhrmann is not a killer. He is someone that might bend the truth or omit the truth, but he’s not a killer. And that’s what saved Monica,” stated Cole.
Monica’s most important concern now could be her kids.
“I know his intention is to reunite himself with the kids and … take those children away from me. I know that that’s —” stated Monica.
“Is that one of your greatest fears?” Roberts requested.
“Do I think about it? Yes. Am I gonna live in fear every day? No. I’m not gonna allow this man to do this to me. No,” she replied. “I intend on really making something of my experience and not shying away from what happened, because I think that if somebody can look at my life and what I’ve been through and learn from it, then I’ve done something right.”
“Anything else you want to say?” Roberts requested Dino earlier than a recording interrupted the decision with a warning: “You have 30 seconds remaining.”
“You know, its 15 minutes of fame has turned into 30 seconds of fame,” he replied.
In September 2019, Dino Guglielmelli was launched on parole after serving greater than six years. His parole ended on June 9, 2021.
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